Why Teach Sign Language to Your Baby

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Kate Garlinge

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🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Babies' understanding of language comes well before their ability to speak. This also can be the case with their motor skills. Most babies will wave bye-bye before they can say the words. These are a few of the reasons signing works well for babies. It gives them another means of communicating. Plus research shows that babies who learn basic sign language develop pathways for communication sooner than they would otherwise.

Jessica Rolph welcomes Joy Jackson (@lyric_laughter_learning) to today’s episode. She has been using sign language with her daughter from the time she was 4 months old. Joy shares why she chose to teach her sign language and how this has enhanced her communication skills.

Key Takeaways:

[1:16] Joy explains why she taught herself sign language in order to share it with her daughter.

[4:12] Joy started teaching Lyric sign language at 4 months old. When did Lyric start using signs?

[5:19] Is there any benefit to teaching sign language to verbal children?

[6:08] What are some common misconceptions about sign language and teaching babies sign language?

[8:15] Joy talks about the difference between baby sign language and ASL.

[9:29] If a parent is just going to use six or seven signs, what are some particularly useful ones?

[10:42] How many signs did Joy’s baby have when she was 1 year old? What can parents expect?

[11:50] Is a baby who can sign considered bilingual?

[13:02] How and why to teach emotion signs.

[14:25] Some great reasons to invest the time necessary to teach our babies and young children sign language.

[16:43] Jessica’s takeaways of today’s show.

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Joy’s Instagram: @lyric_laughter_learning

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0:00.0	Parenthood is a time of so much change for you and your baby.
0:12.8	A little reliable information can go a long way towards making this new life a good life.
0:18.6	I'm Jessica Rolfe, and this is my new life, a love every podcast.
0:28.7	If you've ever tried to learn a second language, you likely understood what others were saying
0:33.6	long before you could engage in a two-way conversation. Babies are no different. Their
0:38.9	understanding of language comes well before their ability to speak. This can also be the case
0:44.2	with their motor skills. Most babies will wave bye-bye before they can say the words. These are a few
0:50.2	of the reasons signing works so well for babies. It gives them a means of communicating
0:55.1	well before they can verbally form words. Plus, research shows that babies who learn basic
1:01.5	sign language develop pathways for communication sooner than they would otherwise. Joy Jackson
1:07.2	has been using sign language with her daughter lyric from the time she was four months old.
1:12.2	I asked her why she chose to teach her daughter sign language.
1:15.8	So it's funny that it started by me watching Meet the Fawkers a very long time ago.
1:23.0	I know that that sounds like super superficial, but I just was so entertained by that movie. Robert De Niro's
1:29.6	grandson, or the child that played his grandson, used baby sign language in that film. And that was
1:34.1	2004. So I was right out of college, not even thinking about kids, but I just found it extremely
1:40.7	fascinating and just kept it in my head for all those years. And then 14 years later
1:45.6	when I had my daughter, that is when I signed up on my registry to receive all kinds of
1:51.2	baby sign language books because I just never forgot. I'm like, I'm definitely going to do this
1:54.5	thing. And that was where it started. I remember saying when my daughter was an infant,
1:59.2	like, I want to know her thoughts. I can't wait to
2:02.2	know what she's thinking because her face was so expressive and all of those things. And so I was
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